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Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art
Cristina Albu
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Description for Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art
Paperback. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 442.
For decades, contemporary artworks with reflective properties have stimulated public forms of spectatorship. According to Cristina Albu, these artworks, which can include elements such as mirrors, live video feedback, or sensors, draw attention to affective interdependence and mechanisms of social control. In Mirror Affect, Albu provides a historical account of mirroring processes in contemporary art and offers insight into the phenomenological and sociopolitical concerns that have inspired artists to stage processes of affective, perceptual, and behavioral mirroring between art viewers. Beginning with the 1960s, Albu charts the rise of interpersonal modes of art spectatorship. She reveals contemporary artists' strategic use ... Read more
For decades, contemporary artworks with reflective properties have stimulated public forms of spectatorship. According to Cristina Albu, these artworks, which can include elements such as mirrors, live video feedback, or sensors, draw attention to affective interdependence and mechanisms of social control. In Mirror Affect, Albu provides a historical account of mirroring processes in contemporary art and offers insight into the phenomenological and sociopolitical concerns that have inspired artists to stage processes of affective, perceptual, and behavioral mirroring between art viewers. Beginning with the 1960s, Albu charts the rise of interpersonal modes of art spectatorship. She reveals contemporary artists' strategic use ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517900069
SKU
V9781517900069
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About Cristina Albu
Cristina Albu is assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory at University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Reviews for Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art
Mirror Effect is an interesting reading to researchers in the joined field of art, science, and technology. -Leonardo Reviews Teeming with insights, Mirror Affect is a long-overdue reevaluation of artworks with mirroring and reflective properties. Cristina Albu argues that the tension between the private and the public, self and other, opens up a conflicted space, but one that is ... Read more